Author Natasha Lipman

A few years ago, during an innocent conversation at lunch where I was talking about something invariably shit that happened to my body, that I “think about your health too much’. And it’s something that has stu...

During my summer holiday in Berlin, I met an old woman on a bus who had the biggest ‘don’t give a damn' powerchair I've ever seen. The wheels were epic & she literally forced people out of her way with her ...

I get a lot of emails from people who ask me for advice on how to rest with chronic illness.
As much as I’d like to say that I’ve got it entirely figured out, I haven’t. As much as I’d like to say there’s so...

There should be no rules when it comes to blogging about your health
Wanna be a successful blogger? Well, if you do a cursory Google search, a bunch of pretty standard rules will pop up with some tips and te...

I spent years out of work. Sure, I had the odd freelance gig here and there, but I basically spent my entire time after uni quitting every single job or internship I started because I wasn’t well enough to keep...

I didn’t get diagnosed with EDS until my early 20’s. I cried, I felt validated, and it felt like I could finally, FINALLY, get some help.
I saw a number of physios who were experts in treating hypermobile pati...

Sometimes you have the kind of health blip where you just have to curl up in bed, turn off all the lights (even if you mostly live in the dark anyway) and hide under the duvet. And that’s ok.
I’ve always pri...

I have been in pain since I was 9 years old. You can even see on my childhood videos when it set in. Like, it was honestly a shock to see myself on video running around and jumping just like all my friends. I l...

It’s very easy to get caught up in outrage online, especially on Twitter. The disability community can be fab, but it can also become pretty insular, mean, and lose the ability to see outside of its own perspec...

Click on any website, open up any app store, or scroll through any social media channel this time of year and it’s pretty likely that you’ll be bombarded with ‘new year new you’ headlines.
From diet and exer...